The Residents
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album reissues: the true report
Review by Everett True, Plan B, December 2005
HERE'S YOUR STARTER for 10. ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, Prog, May 2018
Elusive, experimental, eye-associated avant-garde art collective The Residents have long captivated and confounded music fans around the globe. Their spokesperson and manager, Homer Flynn, invites ...
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 18 June 1983
Beyond the valley of a day in the life of a mole: The Residents struggle overground in their first formal public performance. Is the Mole ...
The Residents: Mark Of The Mole (Ralph RZ 8152)
Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 26 September 1981
SOME THREE or four years back I stalked the streets of suburbia besuited in an eclectic and vast selection of safety pins, verily enough of ...
The Residents: The eyes of the Lord are upon us
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 30 July 1988
From eyeball lashing to Bible bashing THE RESIDENTS are back and inviting you to come spend a fright night at the opera with them. Their ...
The Residents: Union Chapel, London
Live Review by Irina Shtreis, Louder Than War, 9 February 2023
The propagators of pop deconstruction visit London during their Duck Stab tour. ...
The Residents' Mole Show: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 13 November 1982
Mountains out of Molehills ...
Aaron Tanner: The Residents – A Sight For Sore Eyes Vol. 1
Book Review by Irina Shtreis, Louder Than War, 3 February 2022
A Sight For Sore Eyes Vol. 1 celebrates the story of the Residents – extreme art propagators and underground musicians who influenced the likes of ...
Are We Making Art Yet? Music in the age of interactive entertainment
Report by Alan di Perna, Musician, June 1994
MUSIC, OF course, has always been interactive. People dance to it, make love to it, sing along with the lyrics and figure out the chord ...
The Residents: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 8 February 1986
CHANCES ARE that if you know the Residents at all, you know them by their eyeballs, not their music. Avant-garde to the max, the San ...
The Residents Keep an Eye on Their Secret Identities
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1990
Pop music: SanFrancisco's visionary underground musicians will surface tonight with a unique take on Elvis. ...
Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
Q&A: Homer Flynn, spokesman for The Residents
Interview by Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, 28 October 2017
A revealing face-to-face conversation with the man closest to the eyeball-headed musical outsiders ...
The Residents — American dreams turned to grotesque nightmares
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 5 February 2019
The anonymous, long-serving denizens of the post-hippy underground are joined by Mother Teresa and John Wayne for a bizarre take on vaudeville ...
The Residents: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 18 September 2001
"YOU'RE NOT the real Residents!" shouts a heckler. He may or may not have a point – there is no way of telling. Since 1972, ...
The Residents Keep an Eye on Their Secret Identities
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1990
San Francisco's visionary underground musicians will surface tonight with a unique take on Elvis. ...
The Residents: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 9 July 1983
EPIC MOLES ...
Ralph Records: Surrealism a Go Go
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1980
Waiting for art talent scouts? There are no art talent scouts. Face it, no one will seek you out. No one gives a shit. — ...
The Residents: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 8 November 1986
VAUDE-VILE ...
The Residents: The King and Eye ***½ (Enigma)
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 8 February 1990
CLOAKED IN anonymity, the Residents have spent fifteen years playfully dancing around music's strangest regions to create a vast, influential and mostly enjoyable body of ...
Meet the Legendary Residents, Alias the Cryptic Corporation
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 18 February 1978
...alias Pore-No-Graphics, alias Pale Pachyderm Publishing, alias Ralph Records. Maybe. Or maybe not. Some people think they're The Beatles. Hell, anybody who makes Ku Klux ...
Discography by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, February 2001
A bi-monthly series in which we offer a user's guide to recordings of some of our favourite musicians. This month, Edwin Pouncey takes a duck ...
Four-legged trends: The Residents: Animal Lover (Mute) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2005
Latest concept album from cryptic Americans ...
The Residents: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy (Ralph)
Review by Richard Gehr, Spin, January 1986
PART THREE of the Residents' Mole Trilogy doesn't exist, but we can't let that keep us from utter confusion. It all comes down to the ...
The Residents: Nibbles! (Virgin)
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 21 July 1979
MEET THE Residents!!! ...
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 6 October 1979
I'M NOT altogether sure quite how to convey the magnitude of The Residents' achievement with Eskimo. What I am sure of is that it's without ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Gehr, Spin, April 1986
Take a good hard look at America's preeminent underground avant-pop ensemble – you might like what you see. ...
The Residents: George & James (Korova)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 1983
IT WOULD appear that the San Mateo four can't think of a way to end the Mole Trilogy they began in 1981. Instead, they've launched ...
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 11 November 1978
EVEN BEFORE slotting the stylus into the grooves, you're aware that this is one of the most bizarre albums ever to make it a: far ...
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
MORE SO than anything else they've done, when Not Available's weirdness wears off, its "merry tunes" become an indelible stain on one's day-to-day existence. After ...
The Residents: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 8 November 1986
IF YOU often wondered what fate befalls ex-members of that most teenage of teenage groups, Menudo, don't. Their hearts are left in San Francisco where ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, February 1990
LISTENING TO THE early Residents LPs as they came out through the '70s was always attended by the excitement of knowing you were going to ...
Residents: Meet the Residents *****; Third Reich 'N' Roll *****; Finger Prince *****
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 31 December 1977
NOT FOR the faint-hearted. Be warned. Residents specialise in cultural sabotage, sonic rearrangement, cryptic capers. They are (at the same time) very funny and vary ...
New Musick: The Residents — 'Beyond The Valley Of A Day In the Life'
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 26 November 1977
TO THE RESIDENTS, nothing is sacred, least of all themselves. Whether you love/hate the Residents, whether you've heard of them, don't care, matters not at ...
The Residents: Mark Of The Mole and The Tunes Of Two Cities (Ralph)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982
The Residents Going Underground ...
The Residents: Eyeball To Eyeball
Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Creem, June 1986
The Residents: The Ritz, New York, Jan. 16, 1986 ...
The Residents: Cube E Show, Sadler's Wells, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 18 November 1989
SOME CLASSY joint! No beer slop pit of a venue for The Residents... Nosiree! Instead, the paying customers are treated to seats, opera glasses and ...
Report and Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
Those of you who follow the regular propaganda turns of those San Mateo obscurantists, The Residents, will have noticed of late certain odd developments in ...
Snakefinger: Meet the Latest New Wave Cult Figure
Profile by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 19 August 1978
YOU’VE SEEN the ads. You've been enticed, or not by the quirky graphics. Perhaps you've even bought the record, itself as quirky and improbable as ...
The Residents: Taking Care of Business
Profile by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 23 January 1990
The Residents used to be such irritating misfits, what with their art school disguises and grating resentful satires of '60s pop music. Nerds and outsiders ...
see also Snakefinger
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